English Chess Championships 2026 · Abierto

English Chess Championships 2026 — Abierto Round 3

Best game of the round

IM Alan B Merry (2401) vs Alexandr Pereslavtsev (2186), 1-0, King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto Variation, Uhlmann-Szabo System — replay the game

Critical game

GM Michael Adams (2597) vs IM Aaravamudhan Balaji (2386), 1-0, Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Modern Bishop's Opening — replay the game

Biggest upset

CM George Zhao (2125) vs Haytham Salman (1894), 0-1, Queen's Gambit Declined — replay the game

Games

• GM Daniel W Gormally (2498) – GM Gawain C B Maroroa Jones (2616) 1/2-1/2 game
• FM Stanley Badacsonyi (2422) – GM Neil McDonald (2388) 1/2-1/2 game
• GM Michael Adams (2597) – IM Aaravamudhan Balaji (2386) 1-0 game
• Owen Crawford (2230) – GM Ameet K Ghasi (2488) 1/2-1/2 game
• IM Brandon G I Clarke (2448) – FM Qixiang Han (2239) 1-0 game
• IM Peter T Roberson (2306) – CM Peter Finn (2047) 1-0 game
• IM Graeme N Buckley (2276) – IM Jonah B Willow (2391) 0-1 game
• IM Alan B Merry (2401) – Alexandr Pereslavtsev (2186) 1-0 game
• Dylan Wastney (2004) – FM Jude Shearsby (2231) 0-1 game
• Jacob Connor Boswell (2171) – Martin P Burrows (2138) 1-0 game
• GM Mark L Hebden (2343) – IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) 1/2-1/2 game
• FM Adithya Vaidyanathan (2240) – Colin Davis (2088) 1-0 game
• CM Lion Lebedev (2216) – Richard Zhu (2078) 1/2-1/2 game
• Jai Kothari (2195) – Balahari Bharat Kumar (2071) 0-1 game
• FM Theo Khoury (2170) – Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia (2095) 1-0 game
• Tristan A Cox (2076) – Callum D Brewer (2157) 1-0 game
• Matthew McLachlan (2015) – Daniel Gomez (2085) 1-0 game
• Cian Ward (2095) – Aviraj Bhaduri (2037) 1-0 game
• Livio Cancedda-Dupuis (2314) – Fahim Nasiri (1965) 1-0 game
• Daniel Udovenko (2029) – FM John R Richardson (2202) 0-1 game
• CM Kushal Jakhria (2135) – Zain Patel (2124) 1-0 game
• Mahin Rughani (2021) – James Golding (2169) 0-1 game
• CM Avyukt Dasgupta (2149) – CM George Zhao (2125) 0-1 game
• CM Ollie Willson (2013) – Qixuan Han (1938) 1-0 game
• Senith Thenula Gunarathne (1963) – Luke Anthony Honey (2039) 1/2-1/2 game
• Remy Rushbrooke (2138) – Henry Brennan (2014) 1-0 game
• Samuel Marsden (2067) – Charles M Linford (2145) 1-0 game
• NM Oleg Verbytski (2190) – Advait Keerthi Kumar (2037) 1-0 game
• IM Jonah B Willow (2391) – IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) 0-1 game
• IM Aaravamudhan Balaji (2386) – GM Gawain C B Maroroa Jones (2616) 0-1 game
• GM Ameet K Ghasi (2488) – IM Supratit Banerjee (2375) 1-0 game
• IM Brandon G I Clarke (2448) – IM Peter T Roberson (2306) 1-0 game
• Livio Cancedda-Dupuis (2314) – IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) 1/2-1/2 game
• FM Stanley Badacsonyi (2422) – FM Jude Shearsby (2231) 1-0 game
• FM Qixiang Han (2239) – IM Jonah B Willow (2391) 1/2-1/2 game
• NM Oleg Verbytski (2190) – CM Kushal Jakhria (2135) 1/2-1/2 game
• GM Daniel W Gormally (2498) – Mahin Rughani (2021) 1-0 game
• Victor G L Jones (2175) – Jacob Connor Boswell (2171) 0-1 game
• FM Theo Khoury (2170) – Fahim Nasiri (1965) 1-0 game
• Andrew R Brett (1989) – Raman Vashisht-Pigem (2145) 0-1 game
• CM George Zhao (2125) – Haytham Salman (1894) 0-1 game
• Bruce L Baer (1953) – Zain Patel (2124) 0-1 game
• Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia (2095) – Scott Borland (1873) 1-0 game
• Frederick Fairhurst (1802) – Daniel Gomez (2085) 0-1 game
• CM Peter Finn (2047) – Torrey Horwood (1823) 1-0 game
• Richard Zhu (2078) – Alexander Linton (2041) 1-0 game
• Luke Anthony Honey (2039) – Georgi Hristov (1612) 1-0 game
• Andrew Brocklehurst (1881) – Aviraj Bhaduri (2037) 1-0 game
• Advait Keerthi Kumar (2037) – Kiaan Jakhria (1557) 1-0 game
• George Calvert (1678) – Charles Pickard (2036) 1/2-1/2 game
• CM Ollie Willson (2013) – Sunday Chow 1-0 game
• Taran Patel (1623) – Qixuan Han (1938) 0-1 game
• Callum Hill (1829) – Neil Chedd (1623) 1-0 game
• Roy Hughes (1813) – Ben Graff (1674) 0-1 game
• Robert Kane (1781) – Alistair R Pettey (1654) 0-1 game
• Akintayo Akintola (1671) – Michael R Smart (1778) 1-0 game
• Andy Neville (1644) – Gautam Sriram (1743) 0-1 game
• Uduak Uso-Echebiri – Danylo Peresenchuk (1940) 0-1 game

Standings after round 3

1. Harvey, Marcus R
2. Willow, Jonah B
3. Maroroa Jones, Gawain C B
4. Gormally, Daniel W
5. Clarke, Brandon G I
6. Ghasi, Ameet K
7. Badacsonyi, Stanley
8. Roberson, Peter T
9. Shearsby, Jude
10. Balaji, Aaravamudhan

Round 2 · Round 4